Cherrypicked stories
Henry Miller at Denny's
Too Long In California
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- 2286 reads
Rockets
"The planes came at nine," he said. "At two in the morning I buried my son. Then we left." "They warned us what was going to happen but we had no...
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- 1395 reads
You Can't Have It All.
2nd best - Better than nothing at all &;#063;
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- 1483 reads
Metaphors and Similes
Johnny's vision through narcotic headlamp eyes see; a dole queue like a urine stream with drained bodies like wrung swimsuits, therapist's comfort...
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- 3693 reads
S(h)OCKS
How a simple clothing item can change your life.
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- 1377 reads
Nowhere Near
Night's door opens you. I watch. Disembodied by distance a want haunts me: how you touch me and never touch me. In the past, this was enough. Now it...
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- 1369 reads
Midnight Mystery
a ghost story...
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- 1 comment
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Poet At 12 O'Clock
You say you're "always falling over with little glimpses of what it might be like to stand up." I think it's more to do with your being on the brink...
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- 1491 reads
FUNERAL OF YOUTH
Unwanted Memories of Aga's grave
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Holding on by a hand
Actually, who do I know but the person weeding deep in the woods pawing at melancholy dirt old dry dirt dirt in search of a pagan wiccan explosion of...
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- 1309 reads
Alternative Lifestyles
pallid, meek used to myself in supposition my feet are bare and make the greatest sense hobnobbing with tundra; the little flows in my wintered shelf...
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- 1404 reads
My old friend Winter
Good bye summer
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- 1459 reads
Madam Vanerre's Shuffle
a story about a generation gap
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- 1570 reads
God Is Like Paul Daniels
God Is Like Paul Daniels (Now there's a horrible thought) By Mark Cantrell Get out of my light, God, You're spoiling my view. Go sit in the corner,...
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- 1331 reads
Xerx's Bombshell
Like correcting a spelling error in Microsoft Word with a lightning fast click or removing money from one's own debit account, lies are really fast...
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- 1534 reads
Wee Sammy
Wee Sammy Preparation for work was religiously thorough. It involved the consumption of one bottle of Buckie, two cans of Breaker Malt Liquor and a...
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- 1455 reads
Dog Food
The author would like to stress that no animals were harmed during the writing of this story
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- 1494 reads
Night Shift
Bitterness Of Working Through The Night
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- 2112 reads
The Morning After
Another day another date
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- 1557 reads
Understanding
When all those around you are losing their heads
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- 2191 reads
CHildhoOD CHaptER
A Sanctuary of Human River
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- 3221 reads
Pause!
The emptiness hammers another nail into my chest. My fingers dance of their own volition, weaving intricate patterns in the empty space between the...
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- 1673 reads
Empty Road
the red dust drifts through the sleeping air the scales of light coil around my thoughts and drag hollow names from the slender ground water cased...
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This Old Man
Epiphanies in a relationship
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Anybody there&;#063;
Ever talked to yourself&;#063;
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Goldilocks and the Three Bears (Inspiration Point)
Once upon a time, not so long ago, Goldilocks went for a walk in the woods, but no sooner had she got there than she realized she was wearing six inch heels.
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- 23315 reads
Las Vegas 3
“So what would happen if we didn’t give it back? If we just kept going?
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- 12115 reads
Las Vegas 2
It’s half past eight in the evening, but it’s still boiling hot. The temperature gauge says it’s 110, so the first thing we do is put the roof down.
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- 10819 reads
Las Vegas
We’ve finished laughing at the room. We’ve examined the funny fake ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs that they’ve plastered everywhere.
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- 27 comments
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47˚ East 18˚ South 5
another part of this
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- 10 comments
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- 9504 reads
47˚ East 18˚ South 4
in a village
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- 11 comments
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47˚ East 18˚ South 3
a continuation of something I started ages ago
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- 14 comments
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- 11518 reads
47˚ East 18˚ South 2
I have no idea what's going to happen next
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- 6 comments
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47˚ East 18˚ South
This might be the beginning of something. Could you please say if it makes you want to read more?
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- 12 comments
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- 7709 reads
Madagascar 2
someone else
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- 10 comments
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- 8857 reads
Madagascar
I am just trying to write myself out of being stuck
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- 19 comments
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- 11018 reads
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